DOCBOOK: Re: Which attribute to use for context-sensitive help?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Tom.Slee@sybase.com was heard to say:
| There are a few problems with that approach.
|
| One is that the developers supply the context ID.  We have experimented
| before with both (a) the writers writing material first, and supplying the
| context ID (element ID attribute) to the developers, and (b) designing
| conventions so the writers know what context ID the developers will choose.
| In the end, however, the extra level of indirection provides a flexibility
| that helps.
|
| I have to admit that I stumbled across another issue that answers your
| question, but may also scupper the approach I was going to take. That is,
| several context IDs may point to the same topic. So we may go with
| maintaining an external text file of mappings in the end.

Well, you can always have <sect1 id="realid" role="context1 context2 context3">

As for what attribute to use, I dunno. I suppose I'd pick one of the
effectivity attributes, maybe UserLevel. For no particular reason.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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